Portal Quilt

During my photography days in art school, I created unique images and textures by burning slides with a match – the results were always surprising…

My quilt “Portal” uses one of these images creating what looks like an opening, or a passageway.

The main piece was quilted first and couched with yarn; then, I created the separate photo-image quilt and appliquéd it to the main piece. 

New Fabric Postcard and Greeting Card

Aerial View

Aerial View was created with silk, and cotton hand dyed and commercial fabric; fused raw- edge applique, and machine quilting using decorative thread.  I couched yarn on to the quilt surface.  The edges were bound with a zigzag stitch.

Tea Time

My “Tea Time” quilt was created with used tea bag paper as the background.  I made some photo images on the tea bag paper for the letters and the tea strainer.  The lemons are also photo images.  The tea cup and teapot were created by putting yarn, thread, and roving between two pieces of water soluble stabilizer, and free motion quilting on top.  I also created stencils with freezer paper for the leaves on the background, and binding, which is cheesecloth.

New Floral Postcards

The Blues Brothers Postcards

R.I.P Woody

1000 Pocket Project

The 1000 Pocket Project was created by Melanie Testa to raise awareness of breast cancer survivors who have decided against reconstruction.  Please click on the link above to read her inspiring story.